Methadone Uses

Question by Kastour: How Is Prescribing Methadone To Treat Opiate Addiction Effective?
It sounds like just another Opium based painkiller. Wouldn’t prescribing Methadone be the same as prescribing Oxycodone or Morphine to treat addiction? How is it different?
The reason I’m interested is because I used to be addicted to Oxycodone and Codeine. “Just quitting” always sounds easy until you’re addicted to something. But I agree, I know people who get high on Methadone just as they do with other Opiates, and Methadone is/was also used as a painkiller. So prescribing Methadone to treat addiction is something I find strange.

Best answer:

Answer by nightmusic
I know a heroine addict who uses it like a drug. It must have some kind of pleasant effect or she wouldn’t do that. it makes as much sense to me as using a nicotine patch to quit smoking. i think to quit an addiction you just have to quit.

Answer by ~nO~wOrRiEs~
i know someone who is taking methadone. at first it was to help his addiction but now he just takes it to get high. i don’t really see the point in it. i think it is suppose to just narrow you down to one pill instead of several, but i don’t think it works the way that it is suppose to. don’t get me wrong it may help you. this is just my OPINION on it because a lot of people will buy methadone “on the streets” to get high. best of luck to you!